Explosive.



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I 1 Spec iticatioii'of Letters Patent. "Patent ed May :No Drawing.-

Original application filed November 22,1910, Seria1=No. .593,713, I I

Divided-and this application- I 'mean eemr11a1en. Serial naeeaaeos of the King of Sweden, residing at vinters viken, Liljeholmeng-m the Kingdom of SWe I den, have invented. certain new and useful Improvements in "Ex-plosives, of which the following is al specification. p

This is a division of my application filed November 22nd, 1910, Serial No. 5935713; g and priority is claimed for-the present ap plication from the date "of said: "applicationi.

cflhig-zi nvention relates to explosives has- 'longf been found desirable -to-have an {explosive which is better. suited" than. ,dynamite for blasting in-loose mines, frozen' earth and the like, that isan- .e xp1osive. 0. I smaller shattering povver'but'possessing how et er the. valuable properties, of dynamite slch as plasticity immunity" to -Inoistu're" and relatively great; non-susceptibility to ooncussioi n- The explosives *svhic'h have heretofore replaced the B111 poses stated, .qvere principally ammomum" nitrate or ammonium perchlorate explosives,-

but these are usually. manufactured injfithe form :of powder v and therefore not wen adapted -fo'r the above purposes. I The object-f" the present, 1nvent1on is; an

improyed explosiye possessing the valuable properties ofdynamiteas regardsplast-iclty, if I clareth t hat I claim is:

immunity from moisture, etc., in combina commercial liquid 'dinitrotoluene wi'th or,

without the addition ofot'her-substanc'es' .dis a by e n w tro celli1l0se,'. tihis material jeing mixed'with finely powdered'-,f.oxygen ,ieldi g substances such as ammonium" Lpero lo'ratenitrates of the alkalis,' and the likeI-f The; gelatin .ob tainedin this r'nannefi ismiXed with'a suitv-l ablequantity of oxygen yielding-substances .sol'ved therein, g'elatinized *ftomehit to sgelatinize s-mlid nitro com- Witnesses:-

n such as nitrates, perchlorates, chromates and v Abopn GUS- TAFSSON NAUcKHoFF,"c1v1l engmeer,' sub ecb the like, ,for example, ammonium perchlo-. rate',"sodium and potassium nitrate, whereby an explosive is obtained which, is very similar 'in exte'rnal" properties to the so called extra-dynamite- As 'an example of the com osition of such an improved explosive the following is given31%' gelatinized di- 'nitrotoluene consisting of4% -nitro-ce1lulose and 96% of so called commercial liquid-di- ,nitrotoluene,- 43% ammonium perchlorate,

26%. sodium nitrate.

" It is known in th'e manufacture of explosives, foriexample in'the' making of plaspounds of hydrocarbons, and in other ex? .plosives (iiand trinitrotoluene inmolten condition areused Whereby a product is obmined Possessing at ordinary temperatures the consistency. of 'hardind-iarubber and used alone' as a substitute for; indiarubber,

-celluloi'd etc.,-or in combination with oxygen-yielding 'substances,- as an explosive.

According toj'the present invention and as hereinloefore stated solid 'dinitrotoluene is not usedibutis'o called'commercial liquid dinitrot'olu'ene by "means of which a gelatin is obtained which retains its plasticity even at low temperature and is therefore Well adapt- ;ed as a constituentofpl'astic explosives.

Having thus described my invention, I de- A A-n improved' explosive comprising alihixture of about" 31%,of ,so called'commercial liquid clinitrotolue'he gelatini'zed with nit-ro- .cellulose,43% of ammonium perchlorate and v 26%.of alkaline-nitrate; i 3 *In'. witnesswhereof I, havehereunto set my; hand in presence of two-witnesses;-

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